The economy has officially slumped and creative industries are feeling the downward pull just like everyone else. More than a few in-house art departments have seen budget cuts and layoffs. On the plus side, some freelancers may benefit because a creative department with a reduced staff is more likely to hire freelancers to help bear the load. On the minus...
It's been a while so I thought I'd take a minute to shamelessly plug my website store. I plug a lot of stuff so there should be something of interest to everyone. First, you can download The Best of Head Hunting, a PDF containing over 100 of the best portrait and cartoon sketches from my two previously published sketchbooks. Includes a...
Sorry for the slowdown in posts. This has been a crazy month. Our second daughter was born (which means as parents of a newborn we snatch sleep whenever we can grab it), I packed up and moved my studio, and the other day my computer died and had to be replaced. In addition I'm currently loaded down with seven freelance...
For the last two years I've sent Christmas packages to many of the clients I've worked with during that year. Now I'm debating whether or not to send anything this year. Two years ago I sent out a fairly elaborate package (pictured). I bought giant-sized Hershey's Symphony chocolate bars, removed the labels and replaced them with labels illustrated by me. I...
If you missed the 2008 Creative Freelancer Conference in Chicago, you missed some terrific info about how to manage your freelance career and build your business. Have no fear. You can now purchase and download the audio and materials from all the presentations, whether you attended the conference or not. You'll get MP3 audio recordings, session handouts, and each speaker's PowerPoint...
Lately I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Twitter, the popular "social networking" tool that allows you to write brief one- or two-sentence updates about your life (called "tweets") and then instantly broadcast them to your friends and colleagues. Some praise Twitter as a cutting-edge networking and marketing tool, while critics brush it off as a narcissistic time-waster. This...
